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Here are some we read earlier… Thanks to everyone who voted for their favourite London novel. We received over 300 votes via Twitter, Facebook, comments and email. You nominated 115 different novels for the accolade which, if nothing else, provide one hell of a reading …

When Boris scrapped The Londoner he was fulfilling a pledge to divert the money to tree planting and ‘protect and preserve‘ our open spaces. Today it was announced that we’ll be able to vote for our local park to get a slice of the £6m …

Well, OK, maybe we’re getting a little medieval and melodramatic here (although we could have said “Off with his head!”). But Londonist’s blood is boiling today, and a Londonist with boiled blood is not a pretty sight. We are most certainly not alone. The story …

Every now and then, a bit of London-centric news drifts around the Londonist newsroom (which doesn’t exist but imagine a bunch of emails flying around in lieu of an actual office) and is not paid that much attention. However, there comes a time when something …

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 19. Spinning Argh! No wonder there is apathy. At the time of writing this, a general election is still undecided, although if Gordon Brown goes ahead …

Boris Johnson today won the Conservative Party open primary to determine who will be the Conservative Candidate for London Mayor. Quelle surprise! The poll was open to Londoners of all political colours, sadly the poll wasn’t highjacked by thousands of Warwick Lightfoot’s magical woodland friends …

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 17. Yeah whatever I did a little poll about why so many of us are apathetic towards politics. The subject of politics is so huge and …

Fake holy water seized! By God! Fake fags seized! By dog! Calls for Edgware Road station to change its name to Chapel Street Market. Which has the surreal advantage of being an anagram of The Spectral Meerkat. UPDATE: Seems it’s actually Church Street Market. Whoever …

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 15. Poll-itics II Last week we did a little poll about what people thought was important to some of the topical political parties. What is the …

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 14. Poll-itics Well, I did a quick little poll this week amongst group of 26 professional people aged 20 – 35. Just to ask them what …